[Dave Gage]

Simon,

[Simon Ubsdell] “Timothy Payton has a good post about this…”

Boy, that is crazy. I’m not a high end user or have clients so I haven’t had much in the way of issues with speed. I also picked up an early 2011 MPB i7 with 8 gigs of RAM a couple of months ago and that likely does help my circumstances. And, I have been playing with the freebie “FreeMemory” app which seems to do it’s job.

With the little I throw at FCP X, I haven’t found the need to turn off the background rendering and I do export with the basic “Share > Export Media – Current Settings” option to do the final export with x264 in Compressor.

As I get into bigger projects, I’ll definitely keep an eye on the rendering and RAM issues.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Simon,

As always, thanks again for your work.

Question: Aside from the fact that it might take a few extra seconds for FCP X to initially start up, is there any kind of performance hit that might come from having a lot of extra Effects and Generators loaded into the program? I wouldn’t think so, but I thought I’d ask.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

David, Jeremy, and Erik,

Thanks for the replies. With all the success of this encoder I’m surprised I wasn’t initially able to find out more about it before I installed it. (Most the of the posts and references to it seemed to center around how to properly install and use with Windows.)

David, if you or someone can put together a comprehensive tutorial of it’s use, I think that would be a great boon to the web-video community.
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A use tip that someone may find handy is that when you go into QT 7 and select “Movie to QuickTime Movie” and then Settings: Compression Type: x264encoder, the default file extension is .MOV. Since I need .MP4 files (or .m4v) for my Flash video player (so I can use an HTML5 fallback for iPhone and iPad users as .MOV files seem oddly not so compatible with Apple mobile devices), I was a bit worried that it wouldn’t give me what I needed. But, I did find somewhere on the web that if you type in the .MP4 extension to the file name before hitting “Save”, the encoder is smart enough to create that file type. Pretty cool.

Also, I did try some of the Andy Beach tweaks in the “Options…” settings tabs, but ended up just going with the default “Component Default” preset. I did though choose the “use 3rd pass” option on the Behavior tab which hopefully gives a slight increase in the quality. The vast majority of the option choices are above my head, so I essentially just left them alone.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “When using FCPX on only one machine, I used Event Manager X.”

Very cool, I’ll take a look. You can’t beat the price.

Thanks again,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Jeremy,

[Jeremy Garchow] “2) Yes, Finder works great here.”

Do I understand correctly then that you are using the manual Finder method in your work?

I don’t have clients or employees or a need for a SAN, so it would likely work fine for me too. It’s easy enough for me to do the moves myself before I open FCP X as part of my workflow.

I’ve not heard of anyone ever having any issues with disk images, but I suppose it is another layer of complication that wouldn’t be necessary for my situation.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Vincent D'Angelis] ”
also, the footage is 720/60p that i imported-“

I seem to remember a couple of very long threads at the Apple forum where people were having issues with 60P footage. If I remember correctly, it seems they had to take ClipWrap or something similar and transcode into 30P Pro Res so FCP X would work with it properly. It’s possible that this issue was fixed in 10.0.1, but since I only shoot in 30P, I haven’t followed it that closely.

If you don’t get your problem solved, you might try a search at the Apple FCP X forum for “60P” and see what the current word is.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

Jason,

Very cool.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Jason Jenkins] “It says 100% because the Spatial Conform setting defaults to “Fit”. You can still scale the footage, you just have to re-figure the percentage. If you want the clips to act like they do in FCP7, you need select them in the Event Browser and in the Inspector change the Spatial Conform to “None”. Then put them in the timeline.”

Jason,

So, based on our previous posts in this thread-
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/4357

…if working with 1080p files on a 720p timeline with the intention of being able to zoom and crop in, I should also change the Spatial Conform settings to “None” before I begin adding files to the Project timeline. Since you did say in that post, “In FCPX, I set the Spatial Conform on my footage from the default of “Fit” to “None”, before I drop it in the timeline.“)

Aside from doing what you explained, does changing the setting from “Fit” to “None” have any other affects on the project I should know about? (I’m just now starting to understand the big picture here and the terminology involved.)

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Simon,

Cool. I’m familiar with the concept for DAW fade in and fade outs, but I wasn’t familiar with the “easing” terminology. Makes perfect sense.

[Simon Ubsdell] “(see the recent “crop and feather” thread here)”

Yes, I’ve been following that thread also. I didn’t mess with keyframing much in FCP 7, so I’ve been trying to “school up” on animating with keyframes. I’ve read and watched everything I could the last couple of days. I didn’t have much use for it before, but I will from this point on. Thanks for the explanation.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Get ready to be really frustrated – all keyframes in FCPX are ease in/out only, there are no linear keyframes, no bezier control. It can get annoying very quickly, I’m afraid to say.”

I haven’t messed with it too much, but haven’t run into any issues. Can you clarify what you mean by “keyframes in FCPX are ease in/out only“?

Thanks,
Dave